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Wyoming House kills bill to create new school funding source, will instead spend state savings
The House declined to hold an introductory vote on a proposed corporate income tax that would have generated tens of millions of dollars each year for Wyoming schools.

Revenue Committee votes to sponsor Wyoming Medicaid expansion bill during 2020 Legislative session
The committee's support—and Wyoming's worsening budget situation—gives Medicaid expansion the best shot it's had in years.

Revenue Committee to consider non-tax proposal to bring hundreds of millions of public dollars to Wyoming
A bill to expand Medicaid would help close the state’s sizeable budget shortfall (and it would help poor people get healthcare, too).

Wyoming lawmakers have a “cultural bias” against accepting federal funds
When times are good, no one questions whether the Legislature’s refusal to accept federal funding is wise. But as Wyoming’s budget problems continue, those questions are beginning to arise.

As state money for special education dries up, Wyoming looks to Medicaid
Dwindling mineral revenues threaten Wyoming’s ability to provide costly special education services. Legislators can pursue federal Medicaid funds to help, like most states do. But they’re learning there’s no such thing as easy money.

Proposal would help stop corporations from sucking profits out of Wyoming
Corporations demand public services, but in Wyoming they don’t help pay for them. A new proposal advanced by the Legislature’s Revenue Committee last week would change that, while raising much-needed funding for Wyoming schools.